The "music industry" represses people who listen to music The "music industry" plants its boot on people who listen to music, using a repressive copyright system such as the DMCA, in the name of musicians and composers. At the same time, it increases its plutocratist exploitation of musicians and composers to the point where those get almost none of the money that the companies squeeze out of us.

I've proposed two better ways for listeners to support the musicians and composers. Let's make a deal with them, and tell Spotify and the music copyright industry to dry up and blow away.

The first, personal step: always listen to music from a non-DRM copy in your own computer — never from a streaming dis-service. By insisting on having a copy, you make sure that the possibility of sharing a copy is always available to you.